ideas
Seth Godin makes an interesting point about a new digital divide: "I think a new divide has opened up, one that is based far more on choice than on circumstance. Several million people (and the number is growing, daily) have chosen to become the haves of the Internet, and
ideas
Junkscience.com - this site is fun to peruse from time to time. It takes Junk science, which is defined as "faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special and, often, hidden agendas" and debunks the the theories. Heaven knows we need this sort of help with
ideas
The conservatives fight back against Supersize Me - there is a new web site that dissects & attempts to demolish Spurlock's arguments against McDonald's: The “Food Police” are back, this time in a comedy entitled Super Size Me, produced by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock is a
civil society
Source: The Failure of the Human Potential Movement: From Self-Actualization to Experientialism (c) 1998 Geoffrey Hill This is a relatively old essay but it gives a good critique of the Human Potential Movement and the impact that this and related ideologies have had on modern western society. The focus on
civil society
Source: "Warning to problem gamblers: clock off", John Stapleton, The Australian, Sat 24 Jul 2004, p. 111 At the very least every measure like this that reduces the responsibility of an individual to make their own life choices & creates a dependent individual. Over time this increasing regulation
gender & sexism
Women in the western world are actually very lucky in many ways. Now there are so many choices for women - education, full time career, part time work, family, no family, travel, etc. But for men there does not seem to be so many choices. Many women of my acquaintance
ideas
One thing that the big focus nowadays on so-called 'family friendly' workplaces (including maternity/paternity/parental leave) has overlooked is that this excludes the many people who for various reasons do not have children. The question is 'what about us'? While parents are getting time off,
gender & sexism
There are a number of womens' groups that I participate in, several of these are related to women in technology. The feeling seems to be that hardly any women are in positions of influence and that there is something wrong with this. There was a recent article by Bob